P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
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Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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The 18,000 NASA employees are full of galactic talents and abilities and are ready to accomplish whatever they're directed to do.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.
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I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.
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It is important to remember when making jokes about women, that they are not a minority. They weren't captured on another continent and brought here in leg-irons (funny shoes, yes, but not leg-irons) and Hitler didn't blame them for Germany's loss in WWI. Therefore, you can make any kind of fun of them you want.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.